About 8.3 million homeownersnationwide have between 10 percent negative equity and 10 percent positiveequity, representing 18 percent of all homeowners with a mortgage. See full RealtyTrac Home Equity & Underwater Report for September 2013. If the rateof home price appreciation continues at 1.33 percent per month as it has overthe past 16 months, these homeowners should all have enough equity to comfortablysell with something left over at the closing table in the next 15 months.

Seethe percentage of homes where equity is poised to resurface before 2015 in yourcounty using the heat map below.Drag and dropwithin the map to change the location, and use the controls on the right tozoom in and out.Green-colored counties are those with a high percentage ofhomes with resurfacing equity, while red-colored counties are those with a lowpercentage of resurfacing equity, and yellow-colored counties are those wherethe percentage of homes with resurfacing equity is close to the nationalaverage.

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RealtyTrac® is the leading provider of comprehensive housing data and analytics for the real estate and financial services industries, Federal, state and local governments, academic institutions, and the media. Data is aggregated from parcel-level records of more than 125 million U.S. residential and commercial properties and delivered through customizable products including bulk file licensing, APIs and custom reports.